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6phrfsana,Chap.t,
V
E
R,
zo.
abfent; who though they
never felt
the
power
of God
working
in
them,
yet
perfwadethemfelves
they
have faith
as
well
as
another ;
as
if
it
were
fo
flight
a
thing, which no
leffe
power
muff
worke
in
us,
then
that
which
raifed
Chrift from the
dead
:
But having
thus
difpatched the
point
for
common edification, I
will for
the
benefit of
fuch
who
are
more ripe
in
underftanding
fet
downe
my
judgment
in thefe
three points
following
(
See
Page
173.) at this marke
(
.
Now
followeth the Defcription
of
that
power which brought
them
to
beleeve
;
from
that which
it
wrought
in
Chrift our head,
viz.
a. His refurre&ion,
which
is
let downe fromthe
ftate
in
which
he
was
raifed;
railing himfrom
the dead,
2.
The
exaltation
of
Chrift,
which
his
power
wrought;
in
which
we
are
to
marke
; firft,
the
kingly power
he
hath
received,
and fet him at
his
right
hand
;
fecondly,
the
place
where he hath
it,
in
she
heavens
above
; thefe vifibleheavens,
for
fo the
word fgnifieth
:
Thirdly
the
perlons ;
which
are
of
two
forts
; firft,
thole who
are fubjeét
to
this
power ,
as
it
is
more generally taken,
verfe
zr.
and
part
of
the
2a;
Secondly, thofe who
are fubje6t
to
his power,as
it
is
in fpeciall
mannertempered with grace,
in
the wordsfollowing;
A
head
to
hisChurch:the
more particular
confederation
wherof
(hall
not
here
be unfolded. Firft,
to
cleare this
z
0.2
t.
verfes,
and part
of
the
z2.
ver.
Firft,
we
mua
marke,
that
this which
is
a
word,
having reference
to
the
efficacie
or
eff
luall
working of mighty power, which was wrought
in
Chrift
when he
was now raifed from
the
dead
:
As
if
it were not
his
minde
to
exprefie
a
power
like it
for kinde,
fomuch
as
the
felfe-fame
fingular
working which was wrought
in
our head. Secondly,
to
under-
¡land
the
railing him from
the
dead ;
we
muff
know what death
here
is
meant, and
in
what it ftandeth
:
Secondly, what
this refurredìion
indu-
deth. Chrift
fuffered a
fupernaturall death, fo
farce as
might
nand
withthe
unity
of
his
manhood, to the
perfon
of
God the Son,and
with
the
holineffe
of
his
nature; but
here
is
onely meant
that
naturall death,
which
did a time
hold
his humane nature
in
the
¡fate
of
it.
This
death
flood,
firft,
in
feparation
of
naturarll foule and
body. Secondly,
in the
lofle
of
all
that
fenfitive life
which the
foule caufed, and continued
in
the body. Thirdly,
in
the
ceafingof
all aEtions,
wrought
by
the body
as
an inftrument.
Fourthly,
in
a
defire
to
be againe conjoyned
unto
the body.
Now
then the refurreltion
is
fuch a worke
of
Gods
power,
which brought
againe
the
foule
of
Chrift to that body, from
which
it
had
beene
alittle divorced,which
caufed
it bring
forth
life in
that
body,
worke
by
it
as
an
inftrument joyned with
it;
finally,joy
in
the conjunfi-
on
of
it.
Forbetter
clearing Chriffs exaltation
;
we muff
firft
know what
it
is,
to
fet at
Gods
right hand. Secondly,
what
heavens are
hereto
be
un-
derftood.
Thirdly, what
perlons
are
meant
by
principalities,
powers.
Fourthly, what
is
meant
by putting
all things
under
bis
feet.
For
the
firft,
Saint Paul and
Peter,
doe conffrueit
by
raigning
imme-
diately over
every creature,till
the
my
aerie
of
ourredemption
fhal be
fi-
nifhed,t Cora 5.z5.compared with
Pfal.
Ito
.r.Soto
the Hebrewes,he
cloth